If you want to earn money online at home without spending a single penny,online affiliate marketing is one of the ways to make your dream come true.$2.1 billion were paid to webmasters and blogging websites through online affiliate marketing in 2008.

In online affiliate marketing you place different products of companies on your website or blogs.A commission of about 10 to 80 percent is given to you from their profit if customer buys product and is referred through your website.

I am mentioning some important steps that you should take for marketing your products.

1.Buy a domain or setup a blog

If you want to become successful affiliate marketer you should have you own website or blog to pace links of products or services which you want to market.There are many web hosting services which will provide you domain at cheaper rates.GoDaddy is famous web hosting service which provide quality services at cheaper rates.If you do not want to spend money then you can setup a blog at blogger.com or wordpress.com.

2.Choose a niche

You can market range of products from your website which companies want to sell but first you will have to choose main topic or service which will be the theme of your website.Choose a topic on which you passionate so you will earn more with less work.

3.Find companies and products  

Find companies and products which you want to promote.There are many companies on the internet which are selling their products through online affiliate marketing.Ebay and Amazon are the most popular companies but you should not rely only on these companies toy can find  many other companies on the internet which will pay well.You can also use Google Adsense to earn through your website which do not require to sell products but you will be paid on ppc(pay per click) basis.You can find how you can approve your adsense account here.

4.Bring traffic to your website

If you want to be successful affiliate marketer then you will have to bring traffic to your website.In order to achieve this target you will have to follow search engine optimization(SEO) techniques to increase your page rank in popular search engines.It is another subject and you can get help on the internet about this technique.Another way is to take part in forums which are related to your website niche and leave your website link their.

5.Learn online affiliate marketing techniques in forums

You can learnonline affiliate marketing techniques in forums who exchange insights and ideas.Digitalpoint.com is an excellent forum with 30,000 members where you can learn affiliate marketing tips and other techniques like SEO.